The Week's Best Articles From the Washington Monthly
The flawed crypto bill ... the difficulties with gun tracing ... Trump's bonkers GOTV plan ... and more
The Week's Best Articles From the Washington Monthly
The Deeply Flawed Crypto Bill Making Its Way Through Congress: Graham Steele, former Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, assess the House-passed cryptocurrency deregulation bill. Click here for the full story.
Democrats Need to Try Something Radical: Hire Christopher Nolan : Matt Robison, host of the Beyond Politics podcast, argues against relying on 30-second TV ads to win the presidential campaign. Click here for the full story.
Gun Without a Trace: Jamaal Abdul-Alim, education editor at The Conversation, investigates the origin of the gun that killed a young Milwaukee girl, and explains the Republican-passed laws that have made gun tracing so difficult. Click here for the full story.
Donald Trump’s Get-Out-The-Vote Plan is Bonkers: Politics Editor Bill Scher looks at the suspicious arrangement between the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee, and the far-right Turning Point network. Click here for the full story.
Trump’s Tax-by-Tariffs Plan Would Enrich the Wealthy, Cripple the Economy, and Send Inflation Soaring: Contributing Writer Robert J. Shapiro runs the numbers on Trump's latest "crackpot idea for the U.S. economy." Click here for the full story.
“The Opportunity for Democrats to Break Away from the Ethnic Identity Headlock”: Steve Kettmann, a former staff reporter for New York Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle, interviews Mike Madrid, author of the new book The Latino Century: How America’s Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy. Click here for the full story.
The 2024 Kukula Award Winners: The Washington Monthly’s annual award celebrates the best in nonfiction book reviewing and honors the memory of Kukula Kapoor Glastris, the magazine’s beloved books editor. Click here for the full story.
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